This seminar will describe a successful project in Braes High School, Falkirk which aims to support pupils with challenging behaviour from the bottom 20% to make the successful transition from school to work. The project is now in its 3rd year. School staff works closely with staff from the Employment Training Unit to support pupils to successfully complete S4 while preparing for the world of work. Pupils have two days full-time education in school to allow them to gain some SG and/or national qualifications as well as a personal development certificates (ASDAN) and the John Muir Award. The other three days are spent working with the ETU learning about employability skills, health and safety and an opportunity to gain the John Muir Award. Pupils are also given the opportunity to experience jobs which interest them. In the last term, these three days are spent on extended work experience with a local employer in an area of interest to the young person. Successful completion of both parts of the course guarantee each young person a training place which starts immediately they leave school in June. An external evaluation of this programme has shown that 75% of the young people have made a successful transition, having completed school with much improved attendance and behaviour and better qualifications than they would otherwise have expected. This seminar will describe how the course has been constructed to give pupils ‘More Choices and More Chances’ and will detail some of the results. The external evaluation described the course as one of the most successful of its kind. | 